Bull Bridge is near Ambergate, Derbys, photo by Martyn Fretwell. Martyn writes :- William Eaton is first recorded as co-owner with Samuel Hall at the Bull Bridge Brick Company at Sawmills near Ambergate in Kelly's 1895 edition. Then in 1899, the BBB Co. was dissolved & William Eaton took full control of the works, carrying on the business under his own name. The last Kelly's entry for William is 1916.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
H.B. Eberhard is listed in Kellys 1860 & 68 editions at Waterfall Lane, Old Hill, Rowley Regis, Dudley. Jones's Mercantile Directory for 1865 lists Benjamin Eberhard, brick and tile manufacturer. Info & Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Probably associated with the Edge Lane and Dry Clough Collieries at Edge Lane which were operated by Evans, Barker & Company in 1854 and subsequently by the Oldham, Middleton & Rochdale Coal Co Ltd. Closed before 1894.
Photo by Jason Stott.
The Edgewell colliery brick and tile works, Prudhoe was owned by John Johnson in the mid 19th century and was advertising drain pipes from Messrs Johnson and Murton in 1895. Production of a range of ordinary common and firebricks, as well as roofing and drainage tiles lasted from 1840 to 1904. Photo by Lizzie Catsup.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Edlington Brickworks, Edlington, Doncaster On the evidence of this brick it seems that the works may originally have been owned by Oakland Brothers who also owned several other brickworks across West & South Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. The works at some time passed into the hands of The Yorkshire Brick Co. There is no evidence on the 1901 6" OS map of either the brickworks or the colliery village of New Edlington. The village was built to serve Yorkshire Main Colliery which was opened in 1913. Info by Frank Lawson, photo by David Kitching. .
Photo by Denis Welchman who found this in a building near the centre of Coventry.
H.J. Edwards is recorded as the owner & sinking the Holme Wood Colliery, Staveley, Derbys. in 1877. Info & Photographed at Derby Silk Mill by Martyn Fretwell.
J W Edwards & Son, St Stephen's Brick Works, Broad Oak Road, Canterbury. In 1931 the works was advertising Hard Brindled Reds, Mottled Builders Dark and Light Red Sand-Faced Bricks, Moulded Bricks, Antique Thin Bricks, Oven and Paving Tiles. Photo by Keith Aldis.
Made by the Aldershot Brick & Tile Works. The works was closed in 1881. Further information here. With thanks to Mike Hatch.
William Egglestone is listed in Kellys 1868 to 1889 editions as brickmaker at East Theddlethorpe near Louth, Lincs. Info & Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
This is thought to be a product of a works at Eagle Gill Colliery which operated in the 1880s and early 1890s at Eagle Gill between St Helens Colliery and Brickworks, and Gillhead Colliery and Brickworks at Flimby, Cumbria. Photo and info by Richard Cornish.
London Gazette, October 17, 1879. Notice is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between Thomas Elcocks of the Great Western Hotel, Wribbenhall, near Bewdley, in the county of Worcester, Licensed Victualler, and Thomas Bond of Bewdley aforesaid, Brick Maker, trading under the style or firm of Elcocks amd Bond, Brick, Tile, Pipe, and General Earthenware Manufacturers, at Dowles Brickyard, Dowles, near Bewdley aforesaid, was this day dissolved by mutual consent. And notice is hereby further given, that the said business will in future be carried on by the said Thomas Elcocks alone, on his own account, and he will also pay and receive all debts due and owing from and to the said firm of Elcocks and Bond. - Dated this 25th day of September, 1879.
Thomas Elcocks only survived a few more months, dying on 17th December, 1879.
Photo by Scochki Kolasinac.
Tim Lawton writes: I'm fairly sure this would have been made at the Eldon brickworks to the east of Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham. Again this was a colliery brickworks dating back to at least 1897 and part of the South Durham Colliery complex, later named Eldon Colliery. Gratifyingly the brickworks far outlived the colliery and is still producing bricks today under the ownership of Wienerberger.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Bill Duff.
Photo by Steven Tait.
Retrieved from a road excavation in West Yorkshire by Alwyn Sparrow
The Elham Valley Brick and Tile Company at Elham in Kent is listed in the 1891 Kelly's trade directory but not in that for 1903. In 1893 it was reported that their bricks had been used to build the new post office in Dover. Photo by Ken Evans.
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection. Elliotts Ltd were brick-makers of Lepton, Huddersfield. Thanks to Derek Barker for the information.
Photo by Jason Stott.
Found in Mansfield by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
John Ellis was a brick manufacturer born in Mirfield in 1800. His brickworks was just west of Dewsbury Station at The Flats and he lived nearby at Daw Green. The census shows him as a brick maker in 1841, 51 and 61. In 1851 he was employing 5 men and in 1861 is shown as employing 5 men and 5 boys. Found in Dewsbury by Jason Stott.
Joseph Ellis born in 1784 is listed as Brickmaker & Victualler at the 12 O’Clock Inn on Saville Road Sheffield in White’s 1833 & 1849 editions. These TD’s entries are to early for stamped bricks, but he is still listed as a Victualler in Slater 1855 edition, so I am assuming he was still brickmaking as I have established bricks were being stamped with a makers name by 1855 and this style of the lettering was used in the 1850’s. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Ellis, Partridge & Co. are recorded in Kelly's 1891 edition at 10 Market Street & 8 Brunswick Street, then in the 1891 edition, ditto plus L. & N. W. Railway Goods Station Humberstone Road, Leicester & Woodville, Burton-on-Trent. The 1895 entry just lists the Company at Woodville, then there is a gap in directory entries until 1908 when the Company is listed at Greyfriars & L. & N. W. Wharf, Humberstone Road. This entry continues to the last available directory in 1941. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Ellis, Partridge & Co. are listed in Kelly's 1899 to 1922 editions at Woodville, Burton-on-Trent. I was told at Cawarden Reclamation Yard that this brick came from the old Derbyshire Royal Infirmary Hospital in Derby. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Ellistown Colliery & Brickworks was started by Joseph Joel Ellis in 1874. Building terrace houses for his miners, Ellistown soon grew with the expansion of the company. In 1897 when Joseph died, the colliery & brickworks was under the control of trustees under orders of the Court of Chancery until 1936. The Colliery & Brickworks were then separated into two companies in 1936, with the brickworks closing at the start of WW2. Listed in Kelly's Directories as Ellistown Collieries, (fire), (J.J. Ellis, proprietor), Ellistown, Leicester 1881. then Ellistown Collieries, Brick, Pipe, & Fire Clay Works, Ellistown, Leicester 1891 to 1941 editions. Before opening Ellistown Colliery & Brickworks, Joseph had owned the Nailstone Colliery & Brickworks. Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Ellistown Pipe Works was taken over by Hepworth Iron and Steel Co. in the 1960’s and was operated as a Clay Pipe manufacturing unit 1986. The unit was then redeveloped by Hepworth Building Products and reopened as a brick plant in 1988, the factory and associated stock ground covers 9 acres. The Ellistown Brick Factory was sold to Ibstock Brick in September 1999 and operated as an extruded brick unit. The manufacturing process was changed to soft mud with the ability to change back to produce wirecut extruded brick in spring 2002. To produce soft mud brick the unit uses local raw materials to produce up to 55 million bricks per year. Info by Frank Lawson.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Photographed at a recycling yard in Kent by Martyn Fretwell.
A sample brick, photo by Martyn Fretwell.
This is possibly the first design used by the Ellistown Brick Works with their full name used on the brick and quite a crude trade mark. The brick came from a site where houses built in the early 1870s had been demolished in 1964. Photo by Mike Chapman.
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A brick stating its quality from a demolished factory in Ross Walk, Marjorie Street, Belgrave, Leicester. The rear of the brick has a faint maker's mark of the Ellistown Brick Company. Not many brick makers indicated the grade of brick on their product. Photo and info by Dennis Gamble.